The title of the exchange: "Europe is You(th). What makes you a European Citizen? The Mosaic of Cultures" sums up the main issues we want to address in this project. Usually youngsters place themselves within the limits of their national cultures and identities. Europe is outside them. All the others are different. Very often, after spending time together and working with each other, they find out that in many aspects they are similar and they share many common European values. Which altogether connects them to Europe and makes them European citizens. Participants with various backgrounds will come together, discuss and learn from the cultures of their fellows throughout Europe. That will make them aware of the differences and similarities between them while developing a sense of European Citizenship and discovering that EU provides them with many concrete opportunities. At the end of the exchange, they will bring all the lessons together in a creative representation of European countries as a Mosaic of Cultures. To achieve this task, participants will use the knowledge and experiences gained at the end of every programme activity, following certain patterns. Young people do not always have the right view on their European fellows. They are often missing information on other Europeans. The project wants to address these issues as well as the needs deriving from them: youngsters need to get in contact with other European cultures, to look through the eyes of another person, to understand other historical and cultural backgrounds and to exchange feelings and knowledge regarding other countries. By exchanging cultural habits, sharing identity values and learning more about being citizens of Europe, the programme will provide opportunities for participants to discover, compare and better understand other cultures. By joining in various intercultural activities, youngsters will explore what connects them to Europe and will find out the limits of their national identities. They will learn to express their disillusions and frustrations. We expect participants to go home with a better understanding of their own identities, a better knowledge of other cultures and of the European spirit in general. We hope that they will further use the knowledge assimilated during their participation to the exchange, developing understanding for the cultural diversity in Europe and exploring the advantages of their European Citizenship. They will better recognise their own cultural particularities and, getting one step further, will be able to integrate them in a wider, diverse European context. On a long term perspective, we hope the gained experiences will lead to a better understanding of the European cultural diversity and its advantages for all the European citizens. We hope that they will look at Europe from a totally different perspective, and that the project will open new ways of communicating and bridging between cultures. The working methods used during the exchange activities will be: thematic workshops, team work, discussions, debates, individual work, exercise, presentations, experience exchange, simulation, role-play, interview, outdoor activities – all with the aim of learning by experience in a non-formal educational framework while keeping balance between theory and practice.